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RebelRockChick wrote: »Cork City 1-0 Drogheda
The drogheda team sucks major ass.
I know im from the town, but im not a football fan, so its a double negative
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Little Shyte wrote: »Edit the Biki ?
Good call!
But then i have SR on my ass and the bold letters come out and then i wont be able to post in the draft....
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I wasn’t looking for sympathy at all, I know there's a lot worse than me, only said what I said to justify why I find these times hard. And I’m sorry, I’m not a typical whiner on this subject, I d usually just get on with it, but I do find them hard, I’m a young dad, I worry about making ends meet for my kids more than anything else, and, I am somewhat in debt and have been since before the “recession”. Not sure how you can't call times hard when you're unemployed for 7 months with a mortgage, but tbh, that's your business, if you're managing, your managing, fair play to you and I’m not taking the pi$$ when I say that. I'm managing too, just about, wasn’t trying to imply that if I ordered 'mania I’d have to hang this week's used tea bags out on the clothesline for future use, just that I’ve much more important things to spend money on at the moment than a cr*p wrestling ppv, that was it.
I do agree though there are better things to be spending money on that are more important. What i mean by times being hard is, if you think we're struggling now, then we'd be well underwater in 1984 when banks weren't so hesitant to take the keys from your door, when prices were still being hiked left right and centre, when mothers were given benefits by the state, only to be taken out of the fathers wage. We're in a bad way, but we've had it so much worse, and this really is nothing by comparison. Don't believe me, the rich really got hit in the budget yesterday, a move that I genuinely believe was the correct one, because they tried hitting on the sick/helpless last year, and it backfired on them. I don't call my current situation hard times because as i said earlier, i prepared for it because I didn't laugh at the ones studying the economy two years ago who saw the black cloud coming and buying stupidly priced oversized cars and property left right and centre before the bottom fell out of that jar.Also, you're right, no one needs luxuries, but I did say little luxuries, like a book, cd, 6 pack of beer, or a wrestling ppv (If it's actually going to entertain you and be worth getting), and everyone including people with responsibilities to others like me, deserve to treat themselves now and then, that’s all. And personally, I’ve never bought anything to keep up with the Jones, I buy things that I know I’ll enjoy, for me or for my family, I’ve never been in the least bit materialistic. I also don’t relay on these things to stay sane, I meant that in general terms, wasn’t applying that comment to myself personally at all. As you say, family is what keeps me going too, and I spend as much quality time with them as I can, I’m off work all next week for the school’s Easter holidays to do so, but thanks for the tip! (And i love the park, go down to the one in Lucan most weekends, just a pity i'm usaully worn out from running around quicker than you can say larda$$
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I've no problem with anyone treating themselves, i give myself a break once a month by getting something (as opposed to the almost once a day when we really had it good), but the fact of the matter is, we're not in the worst shape we've been in. Ok so we're not going to have the life of reilly for the next couple of years, we're going to feel the pinch. This sh*t will get worse before it gets better...
But at the end of the day the bigger picture is there. You have kids, on top of that you were one. People think we had it great in the 90s too, we didn't! The first half of the 90s were as about as pleasant as we've had it now (just that a lot of people who complain about it are too young to remember it), the country has depended on globalisation though, so as a result, when everywhere else gets hit, so do we. But it will turn around, it did it before and it will do it again.0 -
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Little Shyte wrote: »The helpdesk one liner is fantastic
Kentonbomb wants respect! is the best one out of the lot.
I now understand why MNG was so defensive when i came back 2 years ago, lol 0 -
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ShawnRaven wrote: »*finds gimmick's work place and requests both that, and boards.ie be blocked from their workplace*
MWAHAHAHAHAH
It got blocked from mine yesterday! ****ing nerves are shot all day wondering about the draft, its taken over my life!:pac:0 -
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